Senior police officers focused too much on the potential use of "kettling" during a TUC march against government spending cuts in London last month, human rights campaigners say.
Readers write in about the problem of classifying nuclear power as 'clean' energy and the disproportionate blame placed on teachers and unions in the education reform battle.
Citi earnings under the microscope following Bank of America's disappointing earnings. Also on deck: China fights inflation (again) and a new all-electric Beemer debuts.
Obama's job-approval rating is as low as it's ever been, and one poll shows just 38 percent want him reelected. But he's a champion campaigner, and he's kicking off a series of town hall meetings this week.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - Nuclear safety officials say the first radiation measurements taken inside two reactor buildings at Japan's crisis-stricken nuclear plant show a harsh environment but not one that will be impossible for humans to work in.
AP - A tornado-spewing storm system that killed at least 45 people across half the country unleashed its worst fury on North Carolina, where homes broke apart, trees snapped and livestock were swept into the air. Residents in the capital city and rural hamlets alike on Sunday mourned the dead, marveled at their own survival and began to clean up devastated neighborhoods.
AP - Holding out under a rain of shelling and sniper fire, Libyan rebels fought Moammar Gadhafi's forces Sunday in close-quarters battles in the city center of Misrata, the last major rebel foothold in western Libya. Seventeen people were killed, an NGO worker and an opposition activist said.
A San Francisco Giants fan who was beaten outside the Los Angeles Dodgers' stadium last month was put back in a medically induced coma after suffering seizures.
Powerful storms that have ripped across the Southeast killed more than 40 people over three days. A CNN meteorologist called the storms' impact on North Carolina "epic."
An escalating national debate on federal deficits and government spending focused Sunday on the upcoming deadline for Congress to increase the amount of money that the United States can borrow.